The modular development would yield 179 apartments over 60,000 square feet of office space, an 1,100-square-foot café at the corner of Webster and 15th, and a garage for 86 cars.

And if the development and Density Bonus concessions required to build to the height, mass and density as proposed are approved by the City, the project team is now expected to break ground for the 1433 Webster Street tower in the first quarter of 2020, finishing construction in mid to late 2021.

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Nice. I was taking a class in downtown Oakland for a week last month and noticed that the many parking lots and small buildings make it prime turf to build taller. Much taller. What is the ghostly building to the right of the RAD tower in the second illustration?

Um, SocketSite, that design is pretty much at the opposite end of the architectural spectrum from ‘radical’. A modular construction approach may be a bit unusual for a building of this height, but very far from radical…

Umm, I believe that’s intended as a lighthearted reference to RAD Urban, the firm developing this project. And yes; offsite fabrication. They recently completed an apartment building at 48th and Shattuck, to mixed neighborhood reviews, but it was fun to watch nearly complete slices of apartment hoisted into place from a truck. RAD has two more projects in early construction in Temescal, at 51st/Telegraph and 47th/Telegraph. I wish this one was under construction right now.

Of course the direct reference to their name is obvious in the headline. That doesn’t change the fact that it is not at all a radical project — hence my argument against the use of such word play in this instance…

“Just looking at those pictures it’s stunning how uninteresting the architecture in Oakland really is. NYC, Chicago, Boston, Seattle have much more interesting newer buildings. Not a very interesting in Oakland”

That’s the underdeveloped part of DTO just east of Broadway between the highrises at City Center and the other highrises in the Lake Merritt Financial District. That’s not an accurate portrayal of Oakland’s downtown architecture.